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Software Engineer, Developer Experience

Replit · Foster City, CA · Remote

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About Replit

Describe what you want. Replit builds it. Get a working app or website in minutes. No coding required. Backed by Y Combinator and a16z.

About the role

Accelerate engineering velocity and reduce friction in the Replit development experience by stewarding our codebases, tooling, and developer workflows. You will directly impact every engineer who ships code at Replit. By focusing on developer experience, you will act as a force multiplier across all product development teams, enabling faster feature delivery, happier developers, and reduced operational overhead.

What they're looking for

  • Strong proficiency in TypeScript and/or Go and/or Nix
  • Expertise in modern build systems and toolchains (e.g., Vite, webpack, esbuild, Go's build/module system)
  • Proficiency with linters, formatters, testing frameworks, and code generation tools
  • Experience managing monorepos or large-scale codebases
More about this role

Replit is the agentic software creation platform that enables anyone to build applications using natural language. With millions of users worldwide, Replit is democratizing software development by removing traditional barriers to application creation.

Accelerate engineering velocity and reduce friction in the Replit development experience by stewarding our codebases, tooling, and developer workflows. You will directly impact every engineer who ships code at Replit. By focusing on developer experience, you will act as a force multiplier across all product development teams, enabling faster feature delivery, happier developers, and reduced operational overhead.

The role combines the technical depth needed to navigate a complex, polyglot codebase with the product mindset to understand how infrastructure decisions impact developer productivity and ultimately customer value delivery.

You will also partner closely with the AI team on our internal AI platform — which already generates more than 60% of all merged PRs at Replit — to improve the Agent's output and help shape strategy around the Agent's default stack.

This is an early hire in this area, so you will have agency and have an...

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